Good for him. Most kids don't have the energy for a 5am to 11pm day, but many kids are smart enough to compress their high school + college career to fewer than 8 years by taking AP and college course while enrolled in high school. I am reminded of a high school teacher's saying, "Busy people are happy people".

“Today, the energetic 18-year-old can finally take a breath. On May 29, he received his high school diploma from Sierra Canyon in Chatsworth and on Saturday he graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from Cal State L.A.”

The government schools are being forced by the free market to provide more choice.

Homeschoolers are frequently found enrolling in college early. My own homeschooled kids matriculated at the ages of 13, 12, and 13. All three finished Calculus III and all general college requirements by the age of 15. Two had B.S. degrees in math at 18.

Good for him. Most kids don't have the energy for a 5am to 11pm day, but many kids are smart enough to compress their high school + college career to fewer than 8 years by taking AP and college course while enrolled in high school. I am reminded of a high school teacher's saying, "Busy people are happy people".

It can be done without that level of saturation. I started taking summer school classes after 8th grade. The extra summer school credits allowed me to "skip" my junior year in high school. I continued the practice into college and finished with my BA in Biology from UCSD at age 19. I took 18 to 22 units during Fall/Winter/Spring quarters. Most summers I was able to wrangle another 16 units. It didn't leave much time for "social life", but UCSD was pretty dead with respect to "parties" in the 1974 to 1976 time frame.

Now that the young man has his bachelor's, it is time to look ahead to grad school. Hopefully, he has a good idea of where he wants to go in life. The absence of life experience could make for a less than optimal decision.

"He maintained a brutal schedule, especially during football season, when he was up at 5 a.m. to go to the gym. He would return to his Chatsworth home at 6:30 a.m. to drive his younger sister Jenna to school in Calabasas, dash to Sierra Canyon's Chatsworth campus to attend classes from 8 a.m to 3 p.m., hit football practice from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., navigate traffic to get to Cal State L.A.'s Eastside campus for classes from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. and return home about 11."